No, HTV kept its own schedule right up until Night club was axed in late April 1991 before switching to ITV thames/LWT service. On 1st January 1993 it switched to Granada service.
STV Did finally tell people when Job finder was one, it took a few years after the complaints
Speaking of Nightscreen, there’s a story in the current Private Eye about “one series which made up the most regional hours from any public service broadcaster by far - more than 550 hours in 2017 - and constituted around 85 percent of the total public service television produced in the entire Midlands and East region”. Ofcom are now proposing to exclude self-promotional content from regional quotas.
No, HTV kept its own schedule right up until Night club was axed in late April 1991 before switching to ITV thames/LWT service. On 1st January 1993 it switched to Granada service.
Fair enough but the schedules even in 1988 for HTV were very similar to Granada's, so some kind of agreement must have been in place.
Anyway that was a very minor part of the post, in the grand scheme of things.
Speaking of Nightscreen, there’s a story in the current Private Eye about “one series which made up the most regional hours from any public service broadcaster by far - more than 550 hours in 2017 - and constituted around 85 percent of the total public service television produced in the entire Midlands and East region”. Ofcom are now proposing to exclude self-promotional content from regional quotas.
Wait, the thing about Nightscreen having different music in each region so it counted as regional output wasn't a joke?
Speaking of Nightscreen, there’s a story in the current Private Eye about “one series which made up the most regional hours from any public service broadcaster by far - more than 550 hours in 2017 - and constituted around 85 percent of the total public service television produced in the entire Midlands and East region”. Ofcom are now proposing to exclude self-promotional content from regional quotas.
Wait, the thing about Nightscreen having different music in each region so it counted as regional output wasn't a joke?
I imagine it was one of those jokes that repeated so often obviously became fact. It was always the case that regional programming had to be in peak viewing times so obviously didn’t count.
Regarding the Yorkshire Jobfinder music also being used on Nightscreen. Yorkshire used the same tracks in the same order for years.
Regarding YTV getting Jobfinder instead of Nightscreen, it depended on how long the Nightscreen slot was, if it was long, they would show the first bit and opt out part way through.
Yorkshire would also show an Asian language Community Link before the Asian Cinema film on a Sunday night.
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Regarding Yorkshire Jobfinder being used to fulfil regional quotas, see here:
Speaking of Nightscreen, there’s a story in the current Private Eye about “one series which made up the most regional hours from any public service broadcaster by far - more than 550 hours in 2017 - and constituted around 85 percent of the total public service television produced in the entire Midlands and East region”. Ofcom are now proposing to exclude self-promotional content from regional quotas.
Wait, the thing about Nightscreen having different music in each region so it counted as regional output wasn't a joke?
I imagine it was one of those jokes that repeated so often obviously became fact. It was always the case that regional programming had to be in peak viewing times so obviously didn’t count.
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Well that's nonsense as demonstrated by the ITC Excel sheet above.
I believe it is actually the case that Nightscreen was being used in a similar manner at one stage.
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Interestingly, and referring back to my comment about North East jobs being featured on Yorkshire's Jobfinder service -- given this was a YTV regional commitment, and they seemed to be carefully showing exactly the correct number of minutes of this service per week, were they running the risk of getting their wrists slapped by showing jobs from outside their area for around a third of the time?
There's a section on TV Whirl about Night time on ITV in the north, and it mentions briefly Jobfinder. I found it surprising to read, on the page, that Yorkshire used this as a PSB commitment.
Wait, the thing about Nightscreen having different music in each region so it counted as regional output wasn't a joke?
I imagine it was one of those jokes that repeated so often obviously became fact. It was always the case that regional programming had to be in peak viewing times so obviously didn’t count.
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Well that's nonsense as demonstrated by the ITC Excel sheet above.
I believe it is actually the case that Nightscreen was being used in a similar manner at one stage.
That fact that Channel and STV used to produce their own versions of Nightscreen (Channel Nightscreen and the Nightshift) suggests that they contributed to their regional programming quotas.
If they didn't contribute to the regional quota, I expect they would have just taken ITV Nightscreen rather than making their own versions, as they would have had very little incentive to produce them, especially for Channel.
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Trust me on this STV did not need to make Jobfinder to met its regional programming quotas, and this was the case until 2001. But of course it was good brownie points
